Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword

Quote byRobert Burton · 1577–1640

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part I, Section 2, member 4, subsection 4..

English (original)

Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.

— Robert Burton

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.